Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang. She tweeted that Cannon shot down Nauta's request to be spared of a trial and instead "finds that the indictment puts him on enough notice so that he can adequately...
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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied motions by two of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants to dismiss charges in the classified documents case. Trump aide Walt Nauta's lawyers asked this month for five charges against him to be dismissed, while lawyers for Carlos De Oliveira, who was the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, requested that all charges against him be tossed out. In her filing in Florida, Cannon said De Oliveira "does not meaningfully...
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []
By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s obstruction case in the classified documents prosecution survived an early test, with a federal judge on Thursday denying several bids by Donald Trump’s co-defendants to dismiss charges against them. Judge Aileen Cannon rejected efforts by Trump’s co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De
A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected a last-minute bid by Donald Trump to halt his hush money criminal trial over defense complaints that jury selection was unfairly rushed.
UPDATE: Jury selection has ended for the day in Donald Trump's hush money
The justices discussed immunity, coups, pardons, Operation Mongoose - and the future of democracy.
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Judge Juan Merchan's ruling banning Donald Trump from attending Supreme Court arguments next week in his presidential immunity case spurred sputters of outrage from the former president and laughter online. Trump told the media who gathered outside his hush money trial in Manhattan Monday that he was furious over Merchan's decision, which legal experts note is a common interpretation of criminal law. "Looks like the judge is not going to allow me to escape this scam," he told reporters. ...
Like all things Donald Trump, the first day of his hush money criminal trial in New York started like a brewing storm. Not only did Judge Juan Merchan have to once again shut down Trump's attempt to have the judge removed, the fed-up Merchan then warned Trump to behave — or go to jail. — Read the rest